Hello, my friends! I am embarking on this new journey and testing the waters with creating a blog. I follow so many teacher friends this way and am in total awe of what they do. I am a newbie when it comes to blogging so please bear with me...
I am a 16-year elementary teaching "veteran" that loves to collaborate. I am open minded and always willing to learn, as I truly believe that is how to grow as an educator. There are many days in the classroom that I feel confident, like "I've got this!" and there can also be days that I feel like, "What am I doing?" With every new year comes many new things (and/or people): students, sometimes curriculum, programs, colleagues, leadership, support staff, and the list goes on...In the past few years, it seems like I've taken on more "new" than I have in all my years combined. I know many of you can relate. Sometimes the plate is "officially full" and running over.
I live in Southern California and have two kiddos that I adore. My daughter will be 7 (going on 17, lol) in a couple of days and my son will be 2 this September. I have a non-teacher hubby that I love mucho. We love to go camping, watch movies together, and are planning our first "entire family" Disneyland adventure this week. The hubs, daughter, and I have been when she was younger (aka free--under 3) but have yet to take the little man.
With this blog, I hope to share in my "not-so-balanced" life of being a teacher mama. I love my family. I love my job. Finding the perfect balance of the love, care, time, and devotion I give can be difficult for me. Being a working mama with littles can be such a challenge. I have many successes but I also have many failures and I am trying my hardest to balance all of it.
I hope you will join me on my new adventure. I welcome advice, comments, suggestions, you name it. Thanks for stopping by.
xo,
L
Check me out on Instagram: @cali_teacher_mama
Feeling torn between our kiddos at home and the ones in the classroom is all too evident for many teachers. I'm glad you've decided to blog about this issue and the difficulty of balancing the two responsibilities. I'm looking forward to your future blogs.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jenn! I am lucky to work with someone like you. You have been such a supportive colleague and on "my team" since I've known you! You challenge me as an educator (in an awesome way) and build me up! With this teeny tiny blog, that is my main goal-- sharing my story so others can relate and building others up! ��
DeleteYay! I am really excited to follow you. I've added you to my Bloglovin' -R
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! You are my first follower on Bloglovin' :)
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